Tag Archives: Integration

Growth. This is the single-word answer to a question that many organizations consider self-evident. After all, data has taken a front seat in today’s businesses that it’s hard to find an individual who disagrees with the notion that the ability to leverage data is a key success factor for most businesses. The amount of data we collectively generate 24/7/365 continues to grow, and with it our desire and actual ability to utilize data for various purposes. As the value potential of data grows, so does the business around making this happen. The big picture can be segmented using the idea…

Have you ever had to consider replacing or repairing a beloved car? It’s never an easy decision. You and your wheels have history. Although the costs of a new transmission and fresh paint are far less than the expense of a new vehicle, you will still be driving an old car that will likely need additional repairs with no warranty. Unfortunately, life sciences companies face the same dilemma with data integration. Data integration technology offered by most vendors is founded on last century’s technology principles. This limits the ability of life sciences researchers, operations or sales and marketing teams to…

2017’s retail environment is littered with store closings, strategic uncertainties, and an accelerated pace of industry change. Historically loyal shoppers are frequently leaving for Amazon or new digital experiences offered by the competition. Many new strategies and technologies exist to help retailers compete in this rapidly changing market. Today, I’d like to talk about one of the most basic, and often overlooked, opportunities ripe for improvement: trading partner integration. Retailers have been “onboarding” supply chain partners for decades, migrating from fax and paper environments (you would be surprised how many of these still exist) to EDI documents running over Value…

Recently, SnapLogic announced the launch of its new Iris platform, claiming to be the first of its kind to leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence in metadata analysis to automate integration. While we applaud their efforts to help enterprises solve their biggest integration challenges—namely reducing the time and cost involved in hand-coding development tasks—we think it’s important to point out that this approach is not new. In fact, we’ve been automating integration to enable data transformation here at Liaison for more than 14 years. Our Contivo data mapping solution is a proven, design-time semantic integration technology that accelerates integration and…

You don’t have to be Irish to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day – wearing green, enjoying parades and decorating with shamrocks – can be enjoyed by everyone. As I think about St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, the phrase “luck of the Irish” comes to mind. The expression was coined in the days of the gold and silver rush days by less successful miners to attribute the success of other miners – many of whom were Irish or Irish-American – to luck rather than insight, good decisions and hard work. Just as sheer luck was not solely responsible for the success of Irish…

Integration and data management issues can be downright scary — not just on Halloween but all year long. Business leaders, analysts, IT professionals and others bravely confront a cast of characters right out of a creature feature marathon, including dark data that lurks in the shadows, disappearing information that vanishes without a trace, incredibly shrinking resources, creepy crawly computer bugs, vampire IT costs, the dark forces of shadow IT and zombie processes running in the background that mindlessly consume bandwidth. Luckily, our brave protagonists have an awesome monster-slaying toolkit at their disposal as they seek to vanquish these formidable foes:…

Application and data integration plays a crucial role in helping businesses keep pace with disruptive technologies and adapt to impactful changes such as mergers and acquisitions. The need for scalability, agility, security, compliance, and speed are key driving forces behind increased integration initiatives, so much so that the global system integration market is forecast to reach $393.10 billion by 2020. Enterprises searching for the best-fit integration approach to satisfy their unique requirements have moved from point-to-point (P2P), hub-and-spoke, and naïve B2B integration models to more advanced enterprise application integration approaches such as buses and mules. But while the options can be…

In part VI of this blog series, I covered the challenges and potential found in the Outcomes and Adherence stage of the pharma lifecycle, and introduced the power of data to drive insight, including gaining access to clinical information from EHRs. Now we look at the next stage, which involves pharmacovigilance, where we close the loop between consumers and pharmas by tracking how consumers feel about drugs and other products. Not that many years ago, the way we got feedback for a drug or product was to either call consumers directly to solicit for it or to wait for the…

Gartner’s “bimodal” IT model has attracted a lot of attention from both IT and business. Gartner defines bimodal IT as “the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery, one focused on stability and the other on agility.” Mode 1 is traditional and sequential and often described as consisting of marathon runners; this delivery mode focuses on reliability, safety, and accuracy. Mode 2 is exploratory and nonlinear and often described as consisting of sprinters; it emphasizes agility and speed. With this in mind, I started to think about some of the marathon runners and sprinters I had consulted…

This Q&A is an excerpt from our August 30, 2016 webinar: Reimagine Your Integration Strategy: Unlock a Data-Inspired Future, presented by Shabih Syed, Sr. Manager, Product Management Question [Audience Member]: Can you connect on-premises behind-the-firewall applications to ALLOY? Answer [Shabih Syed]: Yes. So, our preference is always to have the intended application that you want to connect for enterprise application integration to connect directly to ALLOY, but in certain scenarios—it could be a back-end database for example—we do understand that some applications need to sit behind the firewall. For these, we have a lightweight cloud connector, which is essentially an on-prem client that…

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